Start with high-confidence colonial & revolutionary ya books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Hamilton and Peggy!
L. M. Elliott
Cast Two Shadows
Ann Rinaldi
Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons
Just Jane
William Lavender
Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen
Enemy Among Them, an
Deborah H. Deford
Time Enough for Drums
The Family Greene
My Brother Sam Is Dead (scholastic Gold)
James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
M. T. Anderson
Witch Child
Celia Rees
The Declaration, the Sword and the Spy
Jenny L. Cote
Love & War
Melissa de la Cruz
